Security Company Founder Charged with Hacking Georgia Hospital An indictment unsealed this week in a Northern District of Georgia court accuses Vikas Singla, 45, with 18 separate counts of aiding and abetting a 2018 cyber attack against the Gwinnett Medical Center in Georgia. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is (or maybe now was) the COO of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Minneapolis City Web Sites Hit by Denial of Service Attacks Last Thursday, early in the morning, a number of City of Minneapolis web sites were disabled by denial of service attacks. The attacks are short lived and the city was able to restore most of the services within a few hours. It is certainly possible […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russia Behind Cyberattacks on Country of Georgia Last Year The State Department and the UK say that Russia was behind the attack on over ten thousand websites in the Country of Georgia last year. They also formally attributed Sandworm (AKA Voodoo Bear, Telebots and BlackEnergy) to Russia’s GRU Unit 74455. Sandworm is the group responsible […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russia Claims to Have Successfully Disconnected from the Internet Russia has been planning to install an Internet kill switch for a couple of years now. Of course, we have no clue what that means. Likely, it means that they have their own DNS servers so that they do not have to resolve web site addresses […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I am not sure who we should be more concerned about – us or them. The Georgia Secretary of State, who is also running for Governor, has accused the Democrats of unsuccessfully trying to hack the state’s election system and referred it to the FBI. Propublica is reporting that Kemp, the Secretary of State, quietly […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Irish High Court Deals Blow to Facebook In yet another case that could deal a blow to the way that Facebook and others transfer data between the EU and the US, the Irish High Court told Facebook that it would not stay it’s “referral” to the European Court of Justice. The case in question is […]
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